3 course quick holiday meal for 9

rsdiscos

Hi
Our family 7 adults and 2 children are all holidaying in a cottage.
We have decided that each couple will make an evening meal (starter main and dessert) during the week.
I was thinking of something with chicken thighs? but what ?
I could take my slow cooker.
I'm lost with a starter and dessert - need something quick but different.
My sisters will probably doing something with mince- chilli or spaghetti
Suggestions gratefully recieved.
Melissa

poet123

Starters

Pre make fishes cakes at home and serve with chilli dipping sauce and side salad.
Black pudding wrapped in bacon topped with poached egg.
Garlic mushrooms in a creamy sauce with ciabatta.
Prawn parcels with seafood sauce.

Desserts

Eton mess
Shop bought sticky toffee pud!
Chocolate brownies and ice cream
Plum crumble

Hope this helps.

Nargleblast

Starter - smoked salmon trimmings and chopped beetroot with finely-sliced onion and herbs on a bed of salad greens with a lemon-flavoured mayonnaise-type dressing.

Chicken curry and rice for the main course?

Dessert - take along fresh or tinned mangoes (crush/blend them before you go)with some double cream and plain yoghourt, whip together when you are at the cottage and put into dishes/glasses and chill in the fridge for a lovely mango fool - serve with brandy snaps/shortbread fingers.

Pink.

Hi rsdiscos,

These threads may give you some ideas:

Chicken Thighs

Starters

Pudding and dessert recipes

Pink

ixia

Starters:
Bruschetta
mozzarella/tomatoes/basil drizzle of olive oil
Stuffed mushrooms
salad/tart

Main course
Pasta with prawns in a tomato and chilli sauce
Pasta with mediterranean veg
Pasta with pesto

Dessert

tiramisu
cheesecake
ice cream/fruit

Usually buy my dessets hope you have a lovely time.

ixia

you couls also make a marinade for your chcken thighs and serve with a vegetable rice and some mediterranean veg.

Take a disposable bbq and cook your chicken on that and have it along with coleslaw/salad/potato salad/cold tomato pasta etc

SpikyHedgehog

For a quick pudding, I like microwave sponge pudding... I use a Rose Elliot recipe, either the basic pud with eggs, or a vegan one, and chuck it in a greased pyrex dish for a few minutes - actual time depends on size of pud and wattage of microwave. Then serve it with custard - home made, ready made or instant. I prefer marmelade at the bottom of the pudding, my boys prefer golden syrup or jam. And really the boys prefer it with home made chocolate sauce - pack of plain or milk choc chips in a pyrex jug, tablespoon each of golden syrup, marge and milk, then microwave for about 1 minute and give a good stir.

Of course, all that does depend on there being a micowave in the cottage...

Nargleblast

Another quick pud idea - put a carton of cream in a saucepan (single or double, don't matter which) with 2 cut up Mars Bars or a 150gm bar of chocolate. Heat till chocolate melted, stir well till blended into a hot chocolate sauce. Pour over portions of good quality vanilla ice cream and chuck a handful of toffee popcorn on the top.

rsdiscos

Wow thank you so much
Some of the ideas I am dribbling at.
The icecream with toffee popcorn sounds good.Might do a quick microwave brownie thingy to go with it.
I think I might do a chicken curry - I have the slimming world curry book and the chicken jalfrezi I've done and its nice.
The black pudding and poached eggs sounds nice but I think I'd panic doing 9 eggs and serving it up in time.
I have done pakora / bargi (spelling?!)type things before but I make a real mess so might buy them in. Will see.
Thanks for all the suggestions
Will definite use them during the summer. Melissa

RAS

Hi

poached egs you poach until just cooked, set a side and then when the time comes boil up a large pan (oven raoster fro example) of water and slide all the eggs back in and re-heat, like restaurants do.

ubamother

chorizo chicken is a family favourite - and one pot cooking too. Use a roasting dish (with a lid if you have one, foil if not) chop up onions and garlic and put in dish with chicken, chopped up chorizo - I put halved sweet potatoes in as well, but not everyone like them. add salt and plenty of pepper, glug over a bit of olive oil, and squeeze over a lemon. Bake/roast until cooked. I always cook sprinkled in smoked paprika - I have a slight obsession with smoked paprika at the moment and it picks up the chorizo well. I serve with potatoes done like this - cube and boil until about half cooked. Shove in oven on shelf above chicken - give three or four garlic cloves a bit of a bash and put in whole, cut lemon (the one you squeezed over chicken) into quarters and put these in to - glug of olive oil and cook until done. The chorizo flavoured juices from the meat are really nice spooned over the potatoes when served. We serve with a nice green salad. Can be varied using normal sausages and lots of thyme if people really don't like chorizo. Works well with the chorizo sausages you cook, and the 'salami' style stuff - which Aldi sells for £1.49 and it is fabulous.